Evaluating situations in child welfare: From tools to workgroups

Michel Boutanquoi, Maryse Bournel-Bosson and Jean-Pierre Minary

Children and Youth Services Review, 2013, vol. 35, issue 7, 1152-1157

Abstract: The assessment in child welfare raises a number of questions. Number of work in this area focuses on the issue of tools. This paper presents an approach based on collective development process, the working team. Four situations have been studied extensively in the context of action research. The analysis focused on the collective working time (meetings) and helps to highlight the influence of organizational framework, the importance of sense of security and ways of proceeding that may limit the quality of evaluations. Improving the quality of assessments cannot rely solely on tools: it also depends on the quality of teamwork.

Keywords: Assessment; Child welfare; Organization; Team; Collective elaboration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.06.025

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